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Breakdown of a gas in superimposed d.c. and h.f. electric fields

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By means of a time resolution it was found that the electric breakdown of air at atmospheric pressure between a charged plate and a spike, on which a torch discharge is burning, gaves rise to comparatively stable ellipsoidal plasma formations — plasmoids. Their dimensions stay within 2÷10 mm, velocity 0÷4 ms, acceleration −210÷1500 ms−2. Their life time is 10−2 s in magnitude. They decay either at the spike electrode, or when the actual breakdown takes place, or they desintegrate in the inter-electrode space.

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  1. Department of Physics, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Michálkovická 109, Ostrava 5, Czechoslovakia

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Kapoun, K. Breakdown of a gas in superimposed d.c. and h.f. electric fields. Czech J Phys 21, 1246–1249 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01699487

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